In all the hoopla about the opening of the Science Museum's Plasticity show, coinciding with the centenary of the invention of Bakelite, everyone seems to have failed to notice that Britain has its ...

Plastic, admitted Leo Hendrik Baekeland's great-grandson, isn't exactly the family's choice of conversation around the dinner table. In fact, Baekeland was rather low-key about his role in developing ...

AROUND the turn of the 20th century, Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland, a Belgian-born inventor, moved into a three-story turreted house known as Snug Rock in what was then the Harmony Park section of ...

The summer holidays are still dragging on and parents across the UK are struggling to find something — anything — to amuse their increasingly restless children. ‘What about the Museum of Buttons?’ ...

ON a wooden shelf in the Bakelite Museum – “world’s greatest collection of vintage plastics” – a book called Dull Men of Great Britain is proudly opened at the entry for Mr Patrick Cook. He is Baron ...

Groot is an avid collector of Bakelite plastic products, with some 4,000 items in his collection. Karraker is the great-grandson of the inventor of Bakelite, Leo Hendrik Baekeland. They met at a ...

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Anaheim, Calif. — A bit of Hollywood excitement came to the Society of Plastics Engineers annual conference — a continuous screening of the documentary "All Things Bakelite," produced by Leo Baekeland ...

Plastics have come a long way in the 100 years since the first moudable synthetic was invented. But Sophie Campbell discovers that the wonder stuff that started it all is far from forgotten. BySophie ...